Defense and Homologation of Dissertation

WRITTEN PRESENTATION OF THE DISSERTATION

 
Dissertations must be presented in accordance with Pospetro Resolution 01/2012, available in the tab "Documents".
 
General formatting must follow ABNT standards. UFBA published the Academic Style Manual in 2019, containing the latest changes to NBR 6023, including standardization of references obtained on the Internet, among others. The Manual is available in the "Documents tab.
 
ATTENTION TO CAPES Ordinance 206, of 09/04/2018: 
 
"Art. 1º The works produced or published, in any media, arising from activities financed, in whole or in part, by CAPES, must, necessarily, refer to the support received.
 
Art. 2º For the purpose of identifying the source of funding, the use of code 001 is authorized for all financing received.
 
Art. 3º The following expressions should be used in the language of the work:
 
"The present work was carried out with the support of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel - Brazil (CAPES) - Financing Code 001
"This study was financed in part by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel - Brazil (CAPES) - Finance Code 001"
 
Considering that Pospetro receives resources from PROAP, in addition to Scholarships and/or other aid, all students must follow the Ordinance. 
 

GENERAL PROCEDURES FOR THE DEFENSE OF DISSERTATION AND HOMOLOGATION 

 
With the introduction of SIGAA for academic management, new procedures were adopted, meeting the maximum term for the dissertation defense that is 24 months after the student's enrollment. 
 
For the Dissertation Defense, the student must have completed all the necessary curricular components and must enroll in POSPETRO-G001 COMPLETION WORK.
 
The procedures include several steps:
 
1) request for banking and date of defense, by the Advisor, in SIGAA;
 
2) defense realization;
 
3) correction of the Dissertation;
 
4) submission of the final dissertation in SIGAA;
 
5) delivery of documentation at the Pospetro Secretariat.
 
 
1) The Advisor should Request Registration of the Defense Bank of his guiding in SIGAA
 
All fields must be correctly populated, including title, abstract, and keywords in Portuguese and English. 
 
Five names should be included for the Bank: Advisor - President (mandatory presence) - two teachers from Pospetro - two teachers external to the Program. It is suggested to put in order of priority (indicate first the suggestions of holders and then the alternates). It is important to note that the Collegiate may or may not approve the names suggested by the Advisor and/or approve names that are not on the list. 
 
Once the Bankroll is approved and the date by the Collegiate through SIGAA, the Defense is carried out.
 
All fields must be correctly populated, including title, abstract, and keywords in Portuguese and English.
 
Five names should be included for the Bank: Advisor - President (mandatory presence) - two teachers from Pospetro - two teachers external to the Program. It is suggested to put in order of priority (indicate first the suggestions of holders and then the alternates). It is important to note that the Collegiate may or may not approve the names suggested by the Advisor and/or approve names that are not on the list.
 
Once the Bankroll is approved and the date by the Collegiate through SIGAA, the Defense is carried out.
 
2) Realization of Defense
 
The dissertation defense will be chaired by the Advisor. The defense time is 30 to 45 minutes. After the presentation by the master,each member of the Board will have up to 15 minutes for questions or suggestions, and the student will have the same response time.
 
After the Defense, the Coordination informs, in SIGAA, the approval or not of the student. In case of disapproval, seek the Secretariat of Pospetro.
 
3) Dissertation Correction
 
If there are corrections to be made in the data previously entered in SIGAA by the Advisor - title, abstract or keywords - the Advisor must enter the Bank Register and make the corrections.
 
The student must finalize the corrections of the Dissertation within 30 days after the Defense, including sending the Dissertation to the Coordination of the course to verify the standards of THE ABNT (gisele@ufba.br), as well as sending the Database for registration by Pospetro.
 
The student must generate the CATALOGRAPHIC FORM (which must be printed on the back of the dissertation cover page) at: https://sibi.ufba.br/modelo-de-ficha-catalografica-geracao-automatica
 
After approval of the Dissertation with regard to the rules and formatting, by the Coordination, the student must request, to the Secretariat of Pospetro, the original approval sheet to be included in the printed version and to be scanned and included in the digital version.
 
4) Submission of the Dissertation in SIGAA
 
After the previous stage, the student can submit the version through SIGAA.
 
The following steps are indicated by the system itself, and include the approval of the final dissertation by the Advisor.
 
5) Documents to be delivered to the Secretariat of Pospetro
 
The student must deliver the following documentation to the Pospetro Secretariat:
 
- a printed version of the final dissertation, with hardcover;
 
- two CDs containing each: complete dissertation in . DOC, full dissertation on . PDF; Database obtained in the research;
 
- proof of submission of an article to a Qualis-CAPES A, B1 or B2 magazine.
 
The delivery of this documentation is independent of the procedures in SIGAA.
 
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After completing the stages of sending the final dissertation through SIGAA and the delivery of documents at the Secretariat of Pospetro, the referrals for approval request will be given, submitting the documents to the Collegiate and, later, to the higher bodies for the issue of the Master's Diploma in Petroleum and Environmental Geochemistry.
 
In case of doubts, students or teachers may contact the Coordination or the Secretariat of Pospetro.
 
 
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